{"id":146201,"date":"2018-05-31T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=146201"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:28:48","slug":"21-nd-counties-eligible-for-drought-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=146201","title":{"rendered":"21 ND counties eligible for drought aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140310\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PerdueSonny-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PerdueSonny-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PerdueSonny-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/PerdueSonny.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Federal Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has designated 21 counties in North Dakota as disasters, as drought continues in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The secretarial declaration means farmers and ranchers can apply for certain types of aid including emergency loans. So can producers in neighboring counties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filemanager.capwiz.com\/filemanager\/file-mgr\/agdepartment\/Letter_North_Dakota.pdf\">That means producers in 32 of North Dakota\u2019s 53 counties can apply, along with those in five counties in Montana and four in South Dakota.<\/a><\/p>\n<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><\/article>\n<article>Senator John Hoeven&#8217;s Office announced counties eligible:<\/article>\n<article>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Primary Disaster Counties<\/strong>: Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger, McIntosh, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Mountrail, Oliver, Sheridan, Sioux, Slope, Stark, Ward and Williams<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contiguous Disaster Counties<\/strong>: Adams, Burke, Dickey, Divide, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McHenry, Pierce, Renville and Wells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"ng-binding\"><a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?ND\">The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map <\/a>shows about half of North Dakota remains mired in some form of drought.<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Federal Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has designated 21 counties in North Dakota as disasters, as drought continues in the state. The secretarial declaration means farmers and ranchers can apply for certain types of aid including emergency loans. So can producers in neighboring counties. That means producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146216,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146201\/revisions\/146216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}